tale that she was a single mom. in a trailer and did it all on her own. pulled herself up from her boot straps. and turns out this woman had her husband pay for her educational career, and as soon as he made the last payment, she said i m out of here. and also said i m out of here to her 14-year-old daughter, and gave him custody. so she deserts her kids, whether they re born or unborn. and that is nothing like the reality. the potomac river is a mile wide. as children, certainly in my generation, we were taught that george washington threw a silver coin across the potomac. politicians have been fudging their resume since the founding fathers. winston churchhill claimed he was an a student, but in fact was a b-minus too. you want to embellish your resume. richard blumenthal, the senator
she had this story of the tale that she was a single mom. in a trailer and did it all on her own. pulled herself up from her boot straps. and turns out this woman had her husband pay for her educational career, and as soon as he made the last payment, she said i m out of here. and also said i m out of here to her 14-year-old daughter, and gave him custody. so she deserts her kids, whether they re born or unborn. and that is nothing like the reality. the potomac river is a mile wide. as children, certainly in my generation, we were taught that george washington threw a silver coin across the potomac. politicians have been fudging their resume since the founding fathers. winston churchhill claimed he was an a student, but in fact was a b-minus too. you want to embellish your
through 9th grade, not 6th. she defending her narrative as a mother defying the odds. kasie, what else can you tell us about this story? was she divorced when she went on to college? there seem to be two different stories out there. reporter: well, some of the details are not quite right. like what? like we just walked through the fact she was actually 21 when she got divorced, her mother s education went further than she herself insinuated. she sort of displayed herself as somebody who pulled themselves up by their boot straps. she had a child. she was a single mother at 19 was when they search rated, 21 she was former live divorced. she went on to go to community
college. her second husband helped put through law school. did he pay for harvarharvard. he cashed out an account she did live in a trailer park, even if it was for four months. to me it s still pulling yourself up from your boot straps. and there were also reports that her ambitions were such that she up and left her children and went off to harvard. is she still married to the second husband? she is not. when did that happen? a long time ago. but she has her second husband s name. so she just exaggerated is what you re saying? she said i m still learning to be more broad with my
are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to fall and they are the very people telling the black man he ought to lift himself by his own boot straps. this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. now when we come to washington in this campaign, we re going to get out check. the campaign king was speaking of there s the poor people s campaign, which was the focus of the final months of his life. he said, quote, the curse of poverty has no justification in our age. it is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization when men ate each other. the time has come for us to